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Medieval Boardgames Humans have created and passed on games since the beginning of time, and learning about these games can teach us about past cultures. (Wilkins 2) The highly developed cultures have more complex games, which is why intellectual boardgames were abundant in medieval societies. Some of these board games are still seen today, while others have disappeared. Nine Men’s Morris is supposedly one of the oldest games in history. Morris comes from the latin word merellus which means…

play video games of those 700 million play online games, as of 2013. Compare that the 3.8 million people who play some sort of organized sport. These numbers show that more and more people are playing video games, in this day and age where people are more connected than ever before it is only a matter of time until video games are considered a sport. Now I am not comparing video games to football or baseball, which are highly physical orientated sports, what I am saying is that video games can…

How Stereotypes in Video Games Relate to Sustainability Stereotypes are something that was majorly prevalent in the 1860’s and that still have an impact on minorities in today’s society. The biggest stereotypes involve ones against women, racial and cultural minorities, and others with disabilities. Video games are something that has become more common within our society and videogames are allowing gamers to become more socially sustainable. I learned on the first day of class that…

ABSTRACT My research topic is Steve Russell Space War. In the 1950s, researchers would every so often develop a video game as an exhibit, an exploration help, or a preparation exercise, yet these projects were generally short on intelligence and not proposed basically for entertainment. In 1962, a youthful software engineer from MIT, Steve Russell powered that made the…

1970 Sports The first video game ever created was called Pong and created by Nolan Bushnell in 1972. The greatest game Pong was played exactly like tennis, but instead of having to play against a person you can play against the CPU if you wanted(Oxford). Many fantastic inventions were made in the 1970s but by far one of the greats is cellphone which were ivented in 1973 which helped people all around the country or the world contact each other with a push of a button and revolutionized the…

Pacman is an arcade game that was developed by Namco and created by video game designer, Toru Iwatani. The game released in Japan on May 22, 1980. The game was developed over the course of about a year, beginning in April 1979. Iwatani wanted to appeal a wider audience such as women instead of just men since very few games were played by women at all. Because of this, he added elements such as a maze and miniature ghosts as characters. The result of all these elements was a game he had called…

would concur that the author and director took very different takes on the same main idea. Vikas Swarup, the author of Slumdog Millionaire, told the story of 18 year old Ram Mohammad Thomas. He was swiftly arrested on the account of cheating on the game show “Who Will Win a Billion”. Ram then had to recount his life story to prove how he knew all of the answers. The director, Danny Boyle, had taken the book Slumdog Millionaire and changed it into a creation of his own. His story follows Jamal…

The Rubik’s Cube In A Nutshell Background Rubik’s cube is a toy puzzle designed by Ernö Rubik during the mid- 1970s. It is a cube- shaped toy consisting of smaller cube pieces, called “cubies” with 6 faces possessing contrasting colors. This rather primitive-looking phenomenon was exceptionally popular during the 1980s, and peaking 1980 and 1983 with around 200 million cubes sold worldwide. Even today sales continue to exceed 500,000 sales worldwide each year, consequently earning the title…

Video games first appeared in october 1958, Called pong. This was made by a physicist William Higinbotham (Alan). But the first ever video game console was ready for the public in 1972 called the odyssey, This system was made by U.S. electronics company Magnavox (“Violent Video Games: Should the Government Pass Laws Restricting Children's Access to Violent Video Games?”). The Odyssey was never made to make children become violent but, it's this is what began the current controversy today. The…

you technically have to weave them together to make a braclet. Then I broke a cupboard in the house which got me in trouble. But then 3 days later we went to Dave & Buster's again with simon and ethan. I won a big pink ball for my sister on the claw game. At that point it was 1 week until we leave again that's what I was told. We also that week went on a movie ice age collision course where we got free large popcorns for everyone and wondered why then they said it was a gift from the movie…